Supervisor: Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar
Name: Swajit Singh Goud

Address :
NBH: -244, IIIT Campus.
IIIT Hyderabad, Gachibowli,
Hyderabad 500 032, Telangana

Email: swajit.singh@iiit.ac.in

Area of Interest:Earthquake Engineering, Structural Analysis, Design of RC Structures, Performance Based Design

Research:Design provisions for soft storey buildings.

Overview:Earthquake reconnaissance reports of past earthquakes shown that wall infill has significant effect on the performance of the structures. Many of the buildings which were not designed as per the seismic demand had performed satisfactorily because of infill wall. Past research done in the field of brick infill clearly shows that the stiffness and ductility of the structure increases significantly because of brick infills. On the other hand, brick infill may have negative effect introducing torsion, soft storey, weak storey and short column effects, because of irregularity in the location of brick infill horizontally and vertically. Open ground storey construction practice is most common now-a-days, preferred by Architects. As it has many functional and aesthetic advantages in multi-storeys, schools, hotels and commercial buildings. It has been recognized by structural engineers, that this architectural practice will do severe damage in the structural and non-structural element of the ground storey and sometimes leads to total collapse of structure.

Teaching Assistance:

• Strength of Materials Lab (Spring-2015)
• Building Materials Lab (Spring-2015))
• Building Materials & Construction (Monsoon-2014)
• Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design (Spring-2014)
• Finite Element Method (Monsoon-2013)
• Case Workshop (Monsoon-2012)

Projects Undertaken:

• SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND DESIGN RECOMMENDATION FOR URAN- CHAKAN-SHIKRAPUR LPG PIPELINE; Duration: August - December 2014 (Advisor: Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar, Professor, IIIT-H)


• Swajit Singh Goud and Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar (2014), “Rationalizing Response reduction Factor (R) for better performance of reinforced concrete framed buildings”, Conference on Recent Research Advances in Civil Engineering , Osmania University, Hyderabad ,7-8 November, 2014.

Publications:

• Swajit Singh Goud and Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar: “Strengthening and repairing of 5-Storey RC ductile detailed structure with open ground storey”, 13th International symposium on new technologies on Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia, Yangon, 3-5 November, 2014.


• Hazard Vulnerability Risk Assessment of Himachal Pradesh; Duration: 2013-2014 (Advisor: Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar, Professor, IIIT-H)


• Swajit Singh Goud and Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar: “Seismic design provisions for ductile detailed reinforced concrete structures”, 15th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT-Roorkee, 11-13 December, 2014.

Short Courses Conducted:

• Short Course on "Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings" 15-19 July 2014 (22 participants)
• Short Course on "Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings" 03-07 December 2013 (53 participants)
• Short Course on ”Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings” 16-20 July 2013 (25 participants)
• Short Course on ”Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings” 01-04 April 2013 (16 participants)
• Short Course on ”Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings” 03-07 December 2012 (32 participants)
• Conducted Build India-A Summer school camp (2 Months) at IIIT-Hyderabad during 15 May – 13 July 2012.
• Conducted Build India-A Winter school camp (2 Weeks) at IIIT-Hyderabad during 2-14 December 2013.
• Conducted Build India-A Summer school camp (6 Weeks) at IIIT-Hyderabad during 16 May-30 June 2014.

Projects Mentorship:Mentored 3 B.Tech students on “Analysis and Design of Earthquake Resistant Multi-storey Building”